Alright guys, everyone fess up … where are y’all at on the unix beard scale?
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@Doron_Beit-Halahmi ,
What about balancing that out with some female Unix
talent?
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if you can, read both her books. She’s an amazing sysadmin/programmer.
Her name is Jamie Riedesel … another amazing sysadmin
And she’s not unix, but GirlGerms from Australia on the reddit /r/sysadmin forum is really good at security type stuff in the Windows space. She’s working at Microsoft last I heard.
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@Doron_Beit-Halahmi ,
We need some pioneers
Here is a start
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Margaret Hamilton
…
they all predate Unix
where are the female Unix or open source pioneers?
They seem rather rare. Is/was Unix really a man’s world?
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COBOL for the win!
I use an electric razor every day. No beard here.
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I’ve pretty much had a beard last 20+ years - not necessarily a UNIX thing - was a biker (still “own” a non-running Harley)…
Decided to shave it all off 2 years ago - but I couldn’t stand it (the look), when I was in my 20’s and 30’s I had a chin, but it’s receded… That’s the ONLY time I’ve shaved my chin in about 13 years… probably won’t ever do it again… Time before that (2011) was as a “favour” to an anaesthetist (because he asked nicely) when I was undergoing fairly major surgery (hemi-colectomy for bowel cancer - touch wood no recurrence).
Anyway - it’s now about 7-8 inches long (yeah I should use metric, I always have trouble remembering how tall I am in metric, but never forget I’m 6’4" in the old scale) in two years of not shaving…
I just wish the top of my scone was equally prolific - but it’s not - so I actually shave my head clean and compensate with facial hair…
My beard tends to “fork” - like Sveyn Forkbeard (Viking king) - so I do sometimes use ‘product’ to stop it forking and when I’m out riding (not the Harley these days - either my e-bike or my e-scooter) I put a hair elastic on it to bind my beard to a point… It’s nearly all silver - with a few streaks of blond…
And where are you?
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Quite a few women were pioneers of early electronic music - can’t remember the names I guess I should - one of them wrote / performed the Dr Who theme music…
And don’t forget some of those earliest programmers for the USAF during and after WW2 - mostly all women…
and let’s not forget Rosalind Franklin, who was instrumental in unlocking the secrets of DNA, but was overlooked for the Nobel prize in favour of 3 men, Crick, Watson and Wilkins…
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I seem to remember women in the UK during WW2 who did
decoding of encrypted messages.?
and Margaret Hamilton… programmed for the Apollo mission.
It used to be traditional… women in the data processing department. We had some at csiro who programmed
punch card machines with plugboards. You havent
lived till you have seen someone doing sums of squares
on a tabulator… no arithmetic units… it did multiplication by repeated addition. Those ladies were clever and dedicated.
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Yeah - besides Allan Turing, Bletchley Park was staffed mostly by women…
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Sadly we dont have many women on this site as members, but although lacking in numbers the ones that use itsfoss make up in quality of questions and answers.
I used to teach adult education and in computing subjects no matter how hard we tried we always lacked female take up, yet my fellow teachers in languages and art were over run, they could not get male members. I even ran women only groups to try to get more but struggled for numbers. Term time, school hours, female teachers, just ran out of ideas.
In those days typing and office skills (word processing and spreadsheets) or accounting but only if I called it book keeping worked but not computing
Never had a beard, I swim so dont want body hair to slow me down.
I went to one of her lectures in Washington, DC and got her autograph.
And oh BTW, I have a beard tho it is not Unix. I believe it’s a Linux beard.
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Wow, that is a great thing to have.
I never met any of the computing pioneers.
We did have the daughter of one of the Australian computing pioneers ( Maston Beard) working for us.
No, I dont have a beard.
I am not going to do a thesis on “The Climatology of Beards”, but they do seem to be a cold climate phenomenon.
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I have a beard - longish - and maybe an inch longer than it was when this topic was started - where do you measure a beard from anyway? The bottom lip or the based of the chin? It’s at least 12 cm long anyway (i.e. about 5 inches) from my chin…
It’s not just a UNIX thing either - I’m a biker, was a patch wearing club member for a few years - now I ride solo, still have my Harley Davidson (2007 Street Glide)…
Anyway - its long enough for the wind to push it up into my face when I’m riding (motorcycle, e-bike and e-scooter) so I use a hair tie to bind it - else when I stop its all frazzled or forked…
I last shaved my chin clear around April 2022…
One of my favourite beard facts is that Frank Beard, the dummer for ZZ Top, is the only one without a beard (sadly Dusty Hill passed away in 2021 - but his replacement Elwood Francis - also has a beard).
Something I HATE - people, usually drunk blokes, wanting to touch my beard - WTF? HANDS OFF! I’ve even had non-consensual beard touching - that’s sick! If you want to touch a beard GROW YOUR OWN!
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